Super Bowl Audience Totaled 108.4 Million

By

John Jannarone and

Rebecca Smith

Updated Feb. 4, 2013 8:30 p.m. ET

An average of 108.4 million people watched the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers Sunday night in Super Bowl XLVII, the third-largest audience for a television event on record, according to CBS, which aired the football game.

The viewership figures exclude a half-hour period when the game was interrupted by a partial power outage at the Superdome, said CBS, a unit of CBS Corp. The network continued to broadcast footage...